Grand Prix Architecture | Spector Craft Prize | RIBA Charles Jencks Award | Biennale Images Vevey | Telstra Art Award | Rubin Art Prize | Paris Photo

Grand Prix Architecture | Spector Craft Prize | RIBA Charles Jencks Award | Biennale Images Vevey | Telstra Art Award | Rubin Art Prize | Paris Photo

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Awards of the Week Grand Prix d’Architecture 2026 Académie des beaux-artsarchitectureFrancis SolerGrand Prix d’ArchitectureFrench architect Francis Soler is the recipient of the Grand Prix d’Architecture de l’Académie des beaux-arts (Prix Charles Abella) 2026. Throughout his fifty-year career, Francis Soler has established a deeply personal architectural signature centered on the masterful manipulation of light, transparency, and intricate building envelopes. His work seamlessly bridges historical preservation with high-tech geometry, creating bold urban landmarks that prioritize structural buildability and transform internal public spaces. Image: Les Bons Enfants, Ministry of Culture Headquarters, Paris, France, 2005. © Laure Vasconi for Francis SolerAbout the Grand Prix d’Architecture Académie des beaux-arts Spector Craft Prize 2026craftSharif BeySpector Craft PrizeThe newly launched Spector Craft Prize has announced its inaugural winner: Sharif Bey, an artist and educator based in Syracuse, New York. The Spector Craft Prize was established last year by the Spector Family Foundation to "reinforce American craft as a vital and enduring art form while creating new pathways for artists at every stage of their careers," according to a press release. Sharif Bey was chosen as the winner for the ways in which his "ceramic sculptures investigate the cultural and political significance of adornment, identity, and material history." He is currently the subject of solo exhibition, titled Homecoming, at The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, where he was born. Image: Sharif Bey: Homecoming, exhibition view. The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, 2026. Photo: Bryan Conley.About the Spector Craft Prize RIBA Charles Jencks Award 2026architectureAnna PuigjanerRIBA Charles Jencks AwardAnna Puigjaner has been awarded the RIBA Charles Jencks Award 2026. Anna Puigjaner is an architect and researcher who co-founded the practice MAIO in Barcelona and is Professor of Architecture and Care at ETH in Zurich. Her theoretical and build work with MAIO has reframed the question of how to live together collectively, and reveals that the structures that organise our spaces and their functions are historically contingent, not fixed. Her work has repositioned housing as a question of collective infrastructure, care and social organisation, opening up new ways of thinking about domesticity and urban life. Image: MAIO, Nursery: 1306 Plants for Timișoara, Romania, 2023. Photo: Laurian Ghinițoiu.About the RIBA Charles Jencks Award Biennale Images Vevey 2026photographyAbdulhamid KircherGrand Prix Images VeveyThe Grand Prix Images Vevey 2025/2026 was awarded to German-American artist Abdulhamid Kircher for the next chapter in his Rotting from Within project. This straightforward visual investigation into the complex relationship between the photographer and his estranged father made a deep impression on the jury. Based on the artist's transnational family history, the project touches on universal themes such as intergenerational trauma, the construction of masculinity, fatherhood and the emotional ties between men, which are often hidden or invisible. Image: Abdulhamid Kircher, Rotting from Within, Untitled, 2014-2024.photographyStacy KranitzPrix du Livre Images VeveyThe Prix du Livre Images Vevey 2025/2026 was awarded to Stacy Kranitz for her book dummy titled Ain’t No Grave Gonna Hold My Body Down. Stacy Kranitz was born in Kentucky and currently lives in the Appalachian Mountains of eastern Tennessee. Her project captivates through its narrative strength, historical depth, and rare sense of empathy. By tracing the photographic representation of Appalachia over more than a century, Kranitz offers a critical and moving reflection on the camera’s role in shaping social perceptions of poverty and class. Image: Stacy Kranitz, Pat Greene, 2013, West Columbia, West Virginia. Pat with his daughter Vicky on her birthday.About the Biennale Images Vevey 2026 Telstra Art AwardartRyan PresleyTelstra Art AwardMarri Ngarr artist Ryan Presley has won the Telstra Art Award at the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards (NATSIAA), Australia’s longest running and most prestigious First Nations art prize, for Our lifestyle of tranquillity undisturbed (2026). The winning oil painting places a young Indigenous man at the centre of a grand, Renaissance-inspired setting. Drawing particularly on Italian Mannerist Domenico Beccafumi’s The Annunciation (1545), Presley combines the visual language of the European canon with distinctly Australian imagery: a hunting rifle, dark water and a distant bushfire. Image: Ryan Presley, Our lifestyle of tranquillity undisturbed, 2026. Oil paint on polyester, 187x152x4 cm. Courtesy the artist and Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory. Photo: Katherine Travis.About the Telstra Art Award Rubin Museum Himalayan Art Prize 2026artPem LhamRubin Museum Himalayan Art PrizeBhutanese artist Pem Lham has won the 2026 Rubin Museum Himalayan Art Prize, the largest international award supporting contemporary art related to the Himalayan regions. Working in both painting and mixed media, Pem Lham is a "versatile" artist whose art reflects her "skill, whimsy, emotional depth, and a willingness to experiment and explore new forms of expression," says Elena Pakoutova, Rubin Museum senior curator. Although Pem Lham draws from her own heritage in her work—often centering "Molay," a spirit girl from Bhutanese mask dance traditions, to explore womanhood, power, and belonging—it is universally resonant. Image: Pem Lham, She, untitled 9, Bhutan, 2026. Acrylic on canvas, 60.96x91.44 cm. Courtesy of Yeshi Zangpo.About the Rubin Museum Himalayan Art Prize Prix Étudiants Paris Photo 2026photographyCamille Cellier Jonas Glanz Jinyong Lian Mirjam ReiterPrix Étudiants Paris PhotoParis Photo, the Picto Foundation, and SNCF Gares & Connexions have announced the four winners of the 10th edition of the Prix Étudiants Paris Photo. Co-founded in 2017, this program is open to undergraduate and graduate students at European schools of photography and visual arts and is designed to support emerging young talent. The winners will have their work exhibited at Gare de Lyon and will present their portfolios at Paris Photo from November 12 to 15, 2026. One of the four winners will also receive the Bourse Saif Carte Blanche Étudiants grant to carry out a project. The 2026 winners are: Camille Cellier, Jonas Glanz, Jinyong Lian, and Mirjam Reiter. Images: There Will Come Soft Rains © Camille Cellier; One Day I am gonna be a man © Jonas Glanz; Trust Me © Jinyong Lian; Home Story © Mirjam Reiter.About the Prix Étudiants Paris Photo Hire Your Future! Eyes on Talents is the international Talent Place that connects influential brands to talent.

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